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mandibulary and mental ones in two pairs, separated by two 

 mental pores and two pores above each pair. A short, high 

 dorsal, with a long pungent spine, the teeth at the hindborder 

 of which are directed upward ; at a short distance followed by 

 a very long, convex adipose fin, totally adnate to the body. 

 Anal short, opposed to middle of the adipose fin. Pectorals 

 with a pungent spine. Caudal deeply forked, with the lobes 

 more or less produced into filaments. Villiform teeth in bands 

 in the jaws and on the vomer, besides long movable labial 

 teeth in the lower jaw. Gillmembranes totally united, free 

 from isthmus, their hindborder with a slight notch behind. 

 Branchiostegals 7. 



Fig. 146. Bagrichthys hypseloptertis Blkr. 

 The figure in outline represents a fullgrown specimen after Bleeker. 



i. Bagrichthys hypselopterus (Blkr.). 



Bagrus hypselopterus Bleeker, Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indie, III. 1852, p. 588. 

 Bagrichthys hypselopterus Bleeker, Ichth. Arch. Ind. Prodr. I. Siluri, 1858, 



p. 131. Atl. Ichth. II. 1862, p. 49. 

 Bagrichthys hypselopterus Gunther, Cat. Brit. Mus. V. 1864, p. 92. 



B. 7; D. I. 7; A. 15; P. i. io ii; V. 6. 



